BE SURE TO CLICK ON Animals Spotted above to see tonight’s excitement.

These guys/gals are getting to be regulars at Ye Olde Water Ponde. They can hear my shutter, and look up the first few times, but after that, they don’t seem concerned. They get drinks and repair to the stands of mesquite trees to dine on the ripening seed pods, and then move along.

These, or some like them, have been captured on the critter cam that you can see just in front of where they are standing. When they come at night, we see only one at a time, but can’t really tell if we are seeing the same one repeatedly, or if there are more, and they are just taking turns. They refuse to wear their assigned name tags!

They’ve been laying low for the last few days, though. It is pretty hot out there. The jackrabbit has been coming in during all hours of the day, so he must be really thirsty. Most of them come early in the morning and just at dusk – so I can’t get a good picture of them – the rascals!